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Topic: Anything out there comparable to an Eventide Eclipse. (Read 2053 times)

Just curious as to what others use and or recommend in a hardware box. Not opposed to software options but currently us no software verbs. I do like this box a lot....very good reverb, though I image not quite as good as top of the line boxes from Lexicon and TC electronics. I also like the more unusual "Black Hole" type fx in the box.

Other than its big brothers the H7600 & H8000 which are too deep for my needs is there something else out there?

I've seen some people say that ValhallaShimmer is supposed to be based off of Eventide's Black Hole reverb but I've never tried it myself. I've also never used anything by Eventide, though I'm thinking about getting the 2016 Stereo Room reverb plugin.

Thanks Castleview & Paul for you recommendations.....I sensed that verbs and Fx had gone soft and become comparable to hardware and that there was not a great deal more hardware units than what I knew of.....Briscanti was the most recent box to come along in recent years an its priced beyond my reach.

I've been having fun playing with my recently acquired fireworx, enjoying both the quality and flexibility.

It's not quite as powerful as i would have liked in that some of the effects blocks are limited - ie 1 phaser or 1 reverb block per patch....do you know if it is possible to upgrade to increase processing power and block numbers?

Nice old reverb/delay from the mid 1980s. Ursa Major made one of the first digital reverbs called the space station, the stargate was its successor. Here's a demo of the 626 which is the same unit but with double the memory of my 323:

I was very fond of the TC Electronics VSS3 Reverb I had on a Powercore card in a now deceased G5.....always had my eye on TC 4000 as this has that algorithm and the VSS4 plus more in it.

This was my concern with the Fireworx that it might be limited regarding each patch though I have found limits are often a good thing.....is it tricky to patch the firefox with the relatively small screen?

Routing BlocksSetting up effects-algorithm blocks in the FireworX Routing matrix is extremely easy. With a double click on the effect block panel buttons, you insert the effect type chosen with the Value wheel. You can change the order of the effects, repeat certain blocks, add feedback loops and even insert an external device. Choosing an effect block and pushing Enter will bring up the Sub Routing I/O page of the chosen block. You can decide on where the chosen effect will get its fuel from and where to route the power. This way you have exactly the same flexibility in connecting the effects as if you had a couple of external effects-machines and a patch-bay.

The Stargate sounds very good and different.....is it in production today?

Im enjoying checking out the software contributions to this thread......thanks everyone

I am enjoying digging into the fireworx - playing around with the blocks is very easy once you've got the idea of how it works - there is also about 200 user patches that can be stored with the effects I create....Each effect has a extensive range of parameters that can be changed, including the options for a variety of 'modifiers', including external, that can be 'matrixed' in to affect the effect, sometimes in 'realtime' - the way these 'modifiers' affect the sound can be varied/programmed too......

My only 'gripe' is that the overall processing power only allows 1 block of some effects such as reverb, or phaser per patch. Also some of the effects are mono in only....but as I got it for £250 on ebay I am not going to complain....

As you say - limitations are often good - I am thinking of what I need to do to overcome them...

I was very fond of the TC Electronics VSS3 Reverb I had on a Powercore card in a now deceased G5.....always had my eye on TC 4000 as this has that algorithm and the VSS4 plus more in it.

This was my concern with the Fireworx that it might be limited regarding each patch though I have found limits are often a good thing.....is it tricky to patch the firefox with the relatively small screen?

No its pretty easy to work with but I hardly ever use the reverb, its not up to par with the bigger verbs like the VSS3/4.